January 03, 2009

Short Updates

Posted by Scott at 11:44 PM

Good morning all. After going to bed early last night, I'm waking up to sunny skies and 23°F/-5°C, but it's going to be a windy day. 7:09am

Fixed the "Today's Gospel" script at our website because the USCCB site changed the format of their URLs. 7:44am

There's a Golf Channel? And it's in HD? Man, there's a channel for everything! But of course, my cable provider can't deliver EWTN... 7:52am

Back from a decent workout at the gym. Had to leave a bit early because I was feeling a little light headed. Yes, I know I'm blonde, but... 10:31am

With our boys at the Merrimack BK. They're playing on their climbing gym. Michelle & the girls went ice skating. 12:31am

Took the boys to A&E for vanilla steamers, browsing at GameStop, and rented Disney's 'Tarzan' and Wii Music from Blockbusters. 3:25pm

Annoyed that our Blockbuster DVD locked up even when cleaned. I can't even remember the last time this happened with a Netflix rental... 4:45pm

Tried to teach Claire how do unit conversion by means of dimensional analysis. Found this great set of examples. (related link) 8:43pm

Comments

re: dimensional analysis

The best thing I ever learned in my introductory aerodynamics class.

Posted by: Bill White at January 4, 2009 01:19 AM

Yep, for me it was the most important thing I learned from Mr. Walsh in Chemistry. Once I learned it, physics, and then later engineering college were much simpler.

Posted by: Scott at January 4, 2009 05:32 AM

Unit conversion by means of dimensional analysis? Claire, any time you want to run away there's a room with the lower IQ relatives in Illinois. Love Uncle Tom

Posted by: Tom at January 5, 2009 09:21 PM

It's basically things like the following:

If you travel 88 feet in 1 second, how many miles per hour is that?

If you burn 3 pounds of wood per hour, how many will you burn in a week?

Worse yet is the english to metric conversion stuff.

That kind of thing comes up a lot in chemistry and physics (and especially in engineering college).

Posted by: Scott at January 6, 2009 06:11 AM